Re: [Freeciv-Dev] xpm, gif, png & map view!

[Matt Busigin <jediknight@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Sergei Bolotin wrote:

#> Nonono - use library calls to produce/uncompress GNU zipped files.
#
#popen(3), for example..

More overhead.  The wrong way of doing things.  If you really wanted to do
THAT, look at system() - a one argument function.  Both are poor.

                        cheers,
                                matt


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